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Palmér, Hanna; van Bommel, Jorryt – The Mathematics Educator, 2023
The empirical data in this study are from a series of two lessons on measurement implemented in seven classes with 119 six-year-old students in Sweden. Both problem solving and problem posing were shown to be important in early mathematics when students in this study worked on one problem-solving task and one problem-posing task on measurement. As…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Measurement, Young Children
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Ehrlen, Karin – International Journal of Science Education, 2008
Visual representations play an important role in science teaching. The way in which visual representations may help children to acquire scientific concepts is a crucial test in the debate between constructivist and socio-cultural oriented researchers. In this paper, the question is addressed as a problem of how to contextualize conceptions and…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Scientific Concepts, Concept Formation, Cultural Context